Martin Luther

  • Salvation earned only by faith no good works or sacrements (remember the whole predestination idea...faith was a sign that you had been chosen...team/jersey analogy)
  • Relgious authority rested with the Bible not the pope
  • The Church consited of the entire community of christian believers not just the clergy
  • All work is sacred and each person should serve God in his or her own calling (monastic life not better than secular)
  • Marriage of clergy should be premitted (he had seven kids and a wife)
  • Babtism Communion and Penance only sacraments that mattered
  • Consubstantiation: the belief that the bread and win undergo a spiritual change whereby Christ is really present but the elements themselves are not transformed